Troubled Times

Suspended above rock bottom by a gossamer thread;
I feel like a caged beast,
Trapped within the bars of his own undoing.


Times are tough at the moment, REALLY tough. And I'm just talking about OUR life, yet alone the state of the Nation, and all the political nonsense that's being carried on around us. We need Sir Richard Branson to take our failing economy/country and make it prosperous again. I think he could probably do it, if he were in charge of things, WITHOUT interference from the Left, Right, or anyone in between. Because that's what he does. He takes failing ventures, makes necessary changes, and turns them into thriving enterprises. He's not afraid to take chances, and he doesn't let others dictate his course of action. If he sets his mind on something, he does it, not afraid to take life altering (and sometimes threatening) risks that may stand in the way.

At any rate, things are not looking so great in our small part of the world at the moment. I left I job that I was starting to hate, but that provided guaranteed income, to chase a dream that I've had for sometime now; the chance to turn my hobby of photography into an actual paying job. And it's something that's starting to unfold, and will become rather busy, and hopefully very profitable in the near future, but at the moment the situation does not look good. We've been down before, but I don't  think we've ever been this low. Poor Monica has been carrying us, as she always does when I venture off on one of my wild tangents, but it's not fair to her, and I hate myself for putting her through the stress and worry that our situation has inflicted on her. It's affecting her mental and physical well being, and that makes me feel all the worse, because she's had to endure so much over the past 10 years.

We are like the banking industry, in desperate need of a bail-out, but no government life-lines will be thrown our way. If WE screw up, we're basically SOL, and no one is going to come to our rescue. It really makes my blood boil to watch all these politicians and large corporations make one mistake after another, and then receive financial aid to bail them out, get them out of legal trouble, etc., all at the tax payer's expense. And then they turn around and claim that benefits that we, as working Americans, have funded for years might not, and probably won't be available when we need them. Now this does not come as a surprise to me, because it's basically something I've known and feared for years, but that doesn't prevent the anger and outrage I feel towards those parties who are sending this country spiraling into the ground.

At any rate, I hope that we can hold out for the next few weeks, until things start to pick up for me. I know that busy times are ahead, because I'll be helping with Senior Portraits, Sport Portraits and Action Photography, some Weddings, and numerous other projects, aside from any photography work I get on my own. But right now, we're in dire straits, and in need of an actual miracle, before things fall completely apart, and we crash into the rock bottom and end up broken and bleeding, lying in squalor with the neglected masses of the poor, the lonely, and the forgotten.